Prima Donna facts
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Van Halen had a clause for venues that required a bowl of M&Ms, but absolutely no brown ones. This wasn’t to be prima-donnas but rather to served a practical purpose: a simple way of ensuring the technical specifications of the contract had been thoroughly read, primarily for safety reasons.
While producing his opera "Cosi fan tutte" in 1789-1790, Mozart had to deal with an intolerably arrogant prima donna. He got back at her by writing her a showy aria with sequences of fast, high leaps that, in his own words, made her head "bob like a chicken" onstage.
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It's not "pre-madonna;" it's "prima donna."
